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Bone Chilling Ice Cubes

Bone Chilling Ice Cubes

One of the first food-related, creepy Halloween things that I learned to make was a big ice hand to float in a bowl of punch. You make this by filling up a latex (rubber or similar) glove with water, tying it off like a water balloon and freezing it, then peeling the glove away when you’re ready to use the ice hand. It looks neat floating in a bowl of punch, especially if you have some dry ice in there, too. The only drawback is that the ice hand is big and clunky, and not ideal if you’re going to be serving anything other than punch at a party. So, this year, I picked up some Bone Chillers, a silicone Skull and Bones ice cube tray.

I really like the shapes and the tray is just as easy to use as a hard plastic tray, since you simply peel back the tray to release the ice cubes. Even better is that this tray can double as a mold for other things, like candies, fudge, truffles, marshmallows or anything else that you might want to make into a little skull and bones shape. The only downside is that the tray makes just eight ice cubes at a time. I started two days ago, emptying and filling the tray again – not continuously, just when I had the chance – and now my icebox is full of cute and slightly menacing Halloween ice cubes!

I found these on sale at a local store and have seen them all over the place, even at bookstores like Barnes & Noble and Borders, so keep an eye out to pick some up (probably at a good price) before Halloween.

Bone Chilling Ice Cubes

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9 Comments
  • dawn
    October 29, 2009

    cute!

  • Hahaha! I love these! And you could use them on Talk Like a Pirate Day as well as Halloween!

  • Rylan
    October 29, 2009

    Those are neat! Especially for a Holloween party.

  • Sues
    October 29, 2009

    Oooh I love them! Would be perfect in a big bowl of punch 🙂

  • lululu
    October 30, 2009

    haha, i’m imagining using coco drink to make ice, serve with coconut milk!

  • Nutmeg Nanny
    October 30, 2009

    That is adorable! Perfect for a Halloween party 🙂

  • herschel
    October 31, 2009

    psst — they’re made of silicone. so you can BAKE in them!

  • Consignatia
    March 7, 2010

    Which do you think is melting first, the skul or the bones ? 🙂

  • Cadouri Inedite
    March 7, 2010

    I saw some sinking Titanic ice Cubes…Cool too.

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